There are many reasons why you may wish to apply for a job where you are overqualified. However, usually it only applies to a small percentage of job seekers. At the moment, that minority has swelled, as workers who took early retirement during the pandemic are looking for ways back into the workplace, without the […]
As we near the halfway mark for the year, the overriding story of the 2022 jobs market is that it is tight. All data from the latest REC Report on Jobs underlines the same key headlines we’ve seen for months now. Against a backdrop of inflation rising 6.2% in the year to March 2022, different […]
As I’ve mentioned several times and as touted and seen everywhere, there are notable candidate shortages at the moment. In short, there aren’t enough people to fill the job vacancies we have. There are many reasons why this is, but one which has largely been overlooked is quite unique. During the pandemic, larger numbers of […]
The labour market is tight, and there’s currently no let up. As Claire Warnes, Head of Education, Skills and Productivity at KPMG commented, in relation to the latest REC Report on Jobs: “There’s no end in sight to the deep-seated workforce challenge facing the UK economy. Once again this month, job vacancies are increasing while […]
March saw John Bercow, former Speaker of the Commons, deemed a workplace bully in a scathing report from an independent parliamentary appeals panel. There have been tales of him being wracked with fury, blocking people’s exits, shouting aggressively and being “repeatedly dishonest”. If you’ve recently watched Adam Kay’s medical TV dramatization This is Going to […]
It’s been a somewhat mixed and turbulent start to 2022 for the UK economy, and of course that feeds through to the jobs market. While Omicron seems to have been navigated remarkably well, and recovery continues apace, we can’t escape rising inflation. We also need to have an eye open for how the war in […]
We often think of employers and employees as being on different sides of tug o’war. In the area of hybrid working, since lockdowns have ended, there’s been renewed jostling. On one hand employees want to keep the flexibility of the hybrid model and on the other, employers are encouraging employees back into the workplace. Indeed, […]
As we reach the midway mark of the first quarter of the year, it’s an interesting and varied picture for the recruitment market. In many ways it’s ‘more of the same’ following the job market characteristics of the last few months, and in addition, we need to have an eye ahead on rising inflation and […]
Before we’d ever heard of Covid, many of us were always keen to move to a more flexible and hybrid working model. Hybrid working is a mixture of home and office working and is hanging around as the post-pandemic new normal. But now that it’s here for many, are we happy about it? There is […]
2022 is launching itself from the starting blocks with intensity when we look at the most recent recruitment data available up until the end of last year. Indeed, unemployment continued on its downward trend, with the ONS reporting that there were 257, 000 more employees on payrolls in November 2021 than just the month before. […]
